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| List of Maps | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xix |
| A New World | |
| The Collision of Cultures | p. 9 |
| Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizatioks | p. 9 |
| First Contacts | p. 10 |
| Exploration and Conquest of the New World | p. 15 |
| Further Reading | p. 25 |
| Britain and Its Colonies | p. 27 |
| Settling the Chesapeake | p. 28 |
| Settling New En... MORE | p. 32 |
| Indians in New England | p. 39 |
| Renewed Settlement | p. 41 |
| Settling the Middle Colonies and Georgia | p. 44 |
| Thriving Colonies | p. 49 |
| Further Reading | p. 53 |
| Colonial Ways of Life | p. 55 |
| The Shape of Early America | p. 55 |
| Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies | p. 60 |
| Society and Economy in New England | p. 65 |
| Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies | p. 72 |
| Colonial Cities | p. 74 |
| The Enlightenment | p. 77 |
| The Great Awakening | p. 79 |
| Further Reading | p. 83 |
| The Imperial Perspective | p. 85 |
| English Administration of the Colonies | p. 86 |
| The Habit of Self-Government | p. 90 |
| Troubled Neighbors | p. 92 |
| The Colonial Wars | p. 97 |
| Further Reading | p. 105 |
| From Empire to Independence | p. 107 |
| The Heritage of War | p. 108 |
| Western Lands | p. 109 |
| Grenville's Colonial Policy | p. 110 |
| Fanning the Flames | p. 114 |
| Discontent on the Frontier | p. 118 |
| A Worsening Crisis | p. 119 |
| Shifting Authority | p. 123 |
| Independence | p. 129 |
| Further Reading | p. 131 |
| Building a Nation | |
| The American Revolution | p. 141 |
| 1776: Washington's Narrow Escape | p. 142 |
| American Society at War | p. 144 |
| 1777: Setbacks for the British | p. 148 |
| 1778: Both Sides Regroup | p. 151 |
| The War in the South | p. 154 |
| Negotiations | p. 158 |
| The Political Revolution | p. 159 |
| The Social Revolution | p. 162 |
| The Emergence of an American Culture | p. 167 |
| Further Reading | p. 168 |
| Shaping A Federal Union | p. 170 |
| The Confederation | p. 171 |
| Adopting the Constitution | p. 178 |
| "A More Perfect Union" | p. 187 |
| Further Reading | p. 188 |
| The Federalist Era | p. 190 |
| A New Nation | p. 190 |
| Hamilton's Vision | p. 194 |
| The Republican Alternative | p. 200 |
| Crises Foreign and Domestic | p. 201 |
| Settlement of New Land | p. 207 |
| Transfer of Power | p. 209 |
| The Adams Years | p. 211 |
| Further Reading | p. 218 |
| The Early Republic | p. 220 |
| Jeffersonian Simplicity | p. 222 |
| Jefferson in Office | p. 223 |
| Divisions in the Republican Party | p. 230 |
| War in Europe | p. 231 |
| The War of 1812 | p. 234 |
| Further Reading | p. 244 |
| An Expansive Nation | |
| Nationalism and Sectionalism | p. 253 |
| Economic Nationalism | p. 254 |
| "Good Feelings" | p. 257 |
| Crises and Compromises | p. 261 |
| Judicial Nationalism | p. 264 |
| Nationalist Diplomacy | p. 266 |
| One-Party Politics | p. 267 |
| Further Reading | p. 274 |
| The Jacksonian Impulse | p. 275 |
| A New Political Culture | p. 276 |
| Jackson Takes Office | p. 279 |
| Nullification | p. 281 |
| Racial Prejudice in the Jacksonian Era | p. 286 |
| The Bank Controversy | p. 290 |
| Van Buren and the New Party System | p. 294 |
| Assessing the Jackson Years | p. 299 |
| Further Reading | p. 300 |
| The Dynamics of Growth | p. 302 |
| Agriculture and the National Economy | p. 303 |
| Transportation, Communication, and the National Economy | p. 306 |
| The Industrial Revolution | p. 313 |
| The Popular Culture | p. 320 |
| Immigration | p. 322 |
| Labor | p. 328 |
| Jacksonian Inequality | p. 332 |
| Further Reading | p. 334 |
| An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | p. 335 |
| Rational Religion | p. 335 |
| The Second Great Awakening | p. 337 |
| Romanticism in America | p. 341 |
| The Flowering of American Literature | p. 344 |
| Education | p. 346 |
| Antebellum Reform | p. 348 |
| Further Reading | p. 355 |
| Manifest Destiny | p. 357 |
| The Tyler Years | p. 358 |
| The Western Frontier | p. 359 |
| Moving West | p. 366 |
| Annexing Texas | p. 370 |
| Polk's Presidency | p. 374 |
| The Mexican War | p. 376 |
| Further Reading | p. 383 |
| A House Divided and Rebuilt | |
| The Old South | p. 393 |
| The Distinctive Features of the Old South | p. 394 |
| White Society in the South | p. 396 |
| Black Society in the South | p. 400 |
| The Culture of the Southern Frontier | p. 406 |
| Anti-Slavery Movements | p. 408 |
| Further Reading | p. 414 |
| The Crisis of Union | p. 416 |
| Slavery in the Territories | p. 416 |
| The Compromise of 1850 | p. 421 |
| Foreign Adventures | p. 426 |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis | p. 427 |
| The Deepening Sectional Crisis | p. 433 |
| The Center Comes Apart | p. 440 |
| Further Reading | p. 446 |
| The War of the Union | p. 447 |
| End of the Waiting Game | p. 448 |
| The War's Early Phase | p. 452 |
| Emancipation | p. 464 |
| Women and the War | p. 466 |
| Government During the War | p. 467 |
| The Faltering Confederacy | p. 472 |
| The Confederacy's Defeat | p. 447 |
| A Modern War | p. 484 |
| Further Reading | p. 486 |
| Reconstruction: North and South | p. 488 |
| The War's Aftermath | p. 488 |
| The Battle Over Reconstruction | p. 493 |
| Reconstructing the South | p. 500 |
| The Reconstructed South | p. 504 |
| The Grant Years | p. 509 |
| Further Reading | p. 520 |
| Growing Pains | |
| The South and The West Transformed | p. 527 |
| The New South | p. 528 |
| The New West | p. 540 |
| Further Reading | p. 556 |
| Big Business and Organized Labor | p. 558 |
| The Rise of Big Business | p. 558 |
| Entrepreneurs | p. 566 |
| Labor Conditions and Organization | p. 572 |
| A Nation Transformed | p. 582 |
| Further Reading | p. 583 |
| The Emergence of Urban America | p. 585 |
| America's Move to Town | p. 586 |
| The New Immigration | p. 592 |
| Popular Culture | p. 596 |
| Education and the Professions | p. 603 |
| Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature | p. 604 |
| Realism in Fiction and Nonfiction | p. 607 |
| The Social Gospel | p. 609 |
| Early Efforts at Urban Reform | p. 611 |
| Further Reading | p. 614 |
| Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | p. 616 |
| Paradoxical Politics | p. 616 |
| Corruption and Reform | p. 619 |
| Agrarian Protest Movements | p. 629 |
| The Economy and the Silver Solution | p. 635 |
| A New Era | p. 640 |
| Further Reading | p. 641 |
| Modern America | |
| An American Empire | p. 651 |
| Toward the New Imperialism | p. 652 |
| Expansion in the Pacific | p. 654 |
| The Spanish-American War | p. 656 |
| Imperial Rivalries in East Asia | p. 664 |
| Big-Stick Diplomacy | p. 666 |
| Further Reading | p. 673 |
| The Progressive Era | p. 674 |
| Elements of Reform | p. 675 |
| Features of Progressivism | p. 677 |
| Roosevelt's Progressivism | p. 680 |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 684 |
| From Roosevelt to Taft | p. 688 |
| Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism | p. 692 |
| Limits of Progressivism | p. 700 |
| Further Reading | p. 701 |
| America and the Great War | p. 703 |
| Wilson and Foreign Affairs | p. 704 |
| An Uneasy Neutrality | p. 707 |
| America's Entry into the War | p. 714 |
| "The Decisive Power" | p. 719 |
| The Fight for Peace | p. 723 |
| Lurching from War to Peace | p. 729 |
| Further Reading | p. 732 |
| The Modern Temper | p. 734 |
| Reaction in the Twenties | p. 735 |
| The Roaring Twenties | p. 740 |
| The Culture of Modernism | p. 746 |
| Further Reading | p. 751 |
| Republican Resurgence and Decline | p. 752 |
| "Normalcy" | p. 753 |
| The New Era | p. 760 |
| President Hoover, Engineer | p. 766 |
| Further Reading | p. 776 |
| New Deal America | p. 777 |
| From Hooverism to the New Deal | p. 778 |
| Recovery Through Regulation | p. 785 |
| The Social Cost of the Depression | p. 789 |
| Culture in the Thirties | p. 793 |
| The Second New Deal | p. 796 |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 802 |
| The Legacy of the New Deal | p. 807 |
| Further Reading | p. 809 |
| From Isolation to Global War | p. 810 |
| Postwar Isolationism | p. 810 |
| War Clouds | p. 814 |
| The Storm in Europe | p. 821 |
| The Storm in the Pacific | p. 825 |
| Further Reading | p. 830 |
| The Second World War | p. 831 |
| America's Early Battles | p. 832 |
| Mobilization at Home | p. 833 |
| Social Effects of the War | p. 836 |
| The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | p. 840 |
| Leapfrogging to Tokyo | p. 848 |
| A New Age is Born | p. 852 |
| The Final Ledger | p. 860 |
| Further Reading | p. 861 |
| The American Age | |
| The Fair Deal and Containment | p. 871 |
| Demobilization Under Truman | p. 872 |
| The Cold War | p. 876 |
| Civil Rights During the 1940s | p. 881 |
| The Cold War Heats Up | p. 887 |
| Further Reading | p. 896 |
| Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 | p. 898 |
| People of Plenty | p. 899 |
| A Conforming Culture | p. 905 |
| Cracks in the Picture Window | p. 908 |
| A Paradoxical Era | p. 914 |
| Further Reading | p. 915 |
| Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years | p. 917 |
| "Time for a Change" | p. 918 |
| Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency | p. 920 |
| Foreign Intervention | p. 923 |
| Reelection and Foreign Crises | p. 927 |
| Festering Problems Abroad | p. 931 |
| The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 934 |
| Assessing the Eisenhower Years | p. 938 |
| Further Reading | p. 940 |
| New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s | p. 941 |
| The New Frontier | p. 942 |
| Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 946 |
| Foreign Frontiers | p. 949 |
| Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society | p. 952 |
| From Civil Rights to Black Power | p. 957 |
| The Tragedy of Vietnam | p. 960 |
| Sixties Crescendo | p. 965 |
| Further Reading | p. 969 |
| Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s | p. 971 |
| The Roots of Rebellion | p. 972 |
| Nixon and Vietnam | p. 982 |
| Nixon and Middle America | p. 986 |
| Nixon Triumphant | p. 990 |
| Watergate | p. 993 |
| An Unelected President | p. 996 |
| The Carter Interregnum | p. 997 |
| Further Reading | p. 1001 |
| A Conservative Insurgency | p. 1003 |
| The Reagan Revolution | p. 1004 |
| Reagan's First Term | p. 1007 |
| Reagan's Second Term | p. 1011 |
| The Bush Administration | p. 1017 |
| Further Reading | p. 1024 |
| Triumph and Tragedy: America at the Turn of the Century | p. 1025 |
| America's Changing Mosaic | p. 1026 |
| Cultural Conservatism | p. 1029 |
| Bush to Clinton | p. 1030 |
| Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term | p. 1034 |
| Republican Insurgency | p. 1036 |
| Economic and Social Trends of the 1990s | p. 1039 |
| Foreign-Policy Challenges | p. 1042 |
| The Election of 2000 | p. 1045 |
| Compassionate Conservatism | p. 1047 |
| Global Terrorism | p. 1049 |
| Second-Term Blues | p. 1060 |
| Further Reading | p. 1064 |
| Glossary | p. A1 |
| Appendix | p. A43 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. A45 |
| Articles of Confederation | p. A50 |
| The Constitution of the United States | p. A58 |
| Presidential Elections | p. A80 |
| Admission of States | p. A88 |
| Population of the United States | p. A89 |
| Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2005 | p. A90 |
| Immigration by Region and Selected Country of last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2004 | p. A92 |
| Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of state | p. A99 |
| Credits | p. A104 |
| Index | p. A109 |
| United States Map | p. A172 |
| World Map | p. A174 |
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